Hey Nelly Nelly-Judy Collins

[ti:Hey Nelly Nelly] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Noble Blue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hey Nelly Nelly - Judy Collins [00:05.13]Written by：Shel Silverstein/Jim Friedman [00:10.26]Hey Nelly Nelly come to the window [00:14.24]Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see [00:18.72]He's riding into town on a sway back mule [00:22.90]Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool [00:26.77]He sure is talking like he's been to school [00:32.38] [00:33.46]And it's 1851 [00:37.74] [00:43.60]Hey Nelly Nelly listen what he's saying [00:47.71]Hey Nelly Nelly he says it's getting late [00:51.10] [00:51.83]And he says them black folks should all be free [00:55.92] [00:56.47]To walk around the same as you and me [00:59.78]And he's talking about a thing he calls democracy [01:06.69]And it's 1858 [01:11.57] [01:16.92]Hey Nelly Nelly hear the band a playing [01:20.56] [01:21.13]Hey Nelly Nelly hand me down my gun [01:25.39]Cause the men are cheering and the boys are too [01:29.55]They're all putting on their coats of blue [01:33.49]I can't sit around here and talk to you [01:39.23] [01:40.17]Cause it's 1861 [01:44.64] [01:50.19]Hey Nelly Nelly [01:52.21]Come to the window [01:54.34]Hey Nelly Nelly I've come home alive [01:58.82]My coat of blue is stained with red [02:02.64]And the man in the tall black hat is dead [02:07.07] [02:07.60]But we sure will remember all the things he said [02:13.78] [02:14.56]In 1865 [02:19.54] [02:24.67]Hey Nelly Nelly come to the window [02:28.95]Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see [02:33.21]I see white folks and colored walking side by side [02:37.31] [02:37.84]They're walking in a column that's a century wide [02:43.45]It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride [02:50.71]In 1964